Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-15

In the Senate on the 9TH Mr.. Plumb of
| fered resolution calling on the Commissioner
| Of Agriculture for information as to whether
| any person in the employment of the depart
ment making experiments in the manufacture
| of sorghum sugar had applied for OK obtained a
patent connected with such manufacture and
growing out OF such experiment, which was
| adopted and the Senate adjourned. 80. The
House was not in session.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
GERMANY and Austria have renewed
| their commercial treaty for period Of six
months.
1T is understood that the Canadian Gov
eminent will introduce a bill at the next
! session Of Parliament regarding the form
of government in the Northwest Territory.
| One of its provisions will be the abolition
of the Northwest Council
THE Democratic caucus at Washington
on the 81 nominated Speaker Carlisle for
| reelection. The Republican caucus nomi
mated Thomas 3. Reed, Of Maine, for
| Speaker.
SADI-CARNoT was elected President of
France by the Congress which met at Yer
sailles On the Sd. The decisive ballot stood
Sadi-Carnot, GIG; Saussier, 1S6; Ferry, IL;
De Freycinet, 5; Appert, s.; Plat, l.
WHILE the Democratic caucus was dis.
cussing Doorkeeper Donelson's merits at
Washington on the Sd Representatives
Blount, of Georgia, and Breckinridge, of
Arkansas, came to blows. They were
separated by the other members. A. B.
Hurt, OF Mississippi, was chosen for Door
keeper.
THE treaty between China and Portugal
has been ratified.
Most Rev. DANIEL MCGETTIGAN, d. D.,
Primate Of Ireland, and Arch bishopof Ar
magh, died on the 81.
THE Swiss Council of State has elected
NJ. Gavarn, Of Geneva, President, and NJ.
Schoch, of Schaffhausen, Vice President of
Switzerland. Both are Radicals.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, has ap-
pealed to Lord Salisbury, che British Pre-
mier, for help in maintaining peace in Bull
garia.
LORD LYONS, the British Ambassador,
died in London on the 4th.
The Fiftieth Congress met at Washing
ton on the 9Th. No objection was made to
Turpie, of Indiana, taking his seat in the
Senate. Faulkner, of West Virginia, only
was objected to. The House members were
sworn in, the Democratic officials being
elected as arranged in caucus.
States Supreme Court on the 9Th. in the
case of Mugler VS.. the State of Kansas
and the State Of Kansas VS.. Ziebold and
others, in which the cOnstitutionality of
the State Prohibition law was upheld and
the right to obtain damages for property
ruined thereby was denied.
The United States Supreme Court has
rendered a decision in the habeas corpus
of bn ipio oft
rested by order of Federal Judge Boyd
The Supreme Court decided that Judge
Boyd was in error and ordered the dis
charge of the attorneys, holding that the
original suits, although normally against
individuals, was IN reality against the State
of Virginia and therefore the action of
Judge Boyd was in conflict with the
Eleventh amendment to the Federal Con-
stltution.
THE President has recognized Friedrich
Meier as Consul of the German Empire at
st. Louis, Mo-, for Arkansas, Colorado. In
dian Territory, Kansas, Missouri, New
Mexico, Tennessee and st. Clair, Madison
and Monroe Counties, Illinois.
Most REV. JOHN POWER, Catholic Bishop
of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland, is
dead.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL GORDON, Of
Trenton, N. j.. has appointed his daughter,
Alphonsine NJ. Gordon, young lady just
out Of her teens, as his deputy. She is at
tractive in appearance and has appeared
several times in her official capacity.
THE President on the 9th sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate: Lucius Q.
c. Lamar, of Mississippi, to be Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court of the United
States; William +. Villas, of Wisconsin, to
be Secretary of the Interior; Don NJ. Dick
inson. of Michigan, to be Postmaster-Gen-
erai; Charles S. Fairchild, of New York, to
be Secretary OF the Treasury; George L.
Rives, of New York, to be Assistant Secre-
tary of State; Isaac H. Maynard, of New
York, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury; Sigourney Butler, of Massachu-
sets. to be Second Comptroller OF the
Treasury; James w. Hyatt, of Connecticut,
to be Treasurer of the United States.
CHARLES j. TAYLOR, United States Min
lister to Liberia, and who recently returned
to this country, denies the truth OF the pub
lished report that he was recalled, pending
the investigation OF charges of some sort
against him at the State Department.
TELEGRAMs from Accra, Western Africa,
under date of December l, says that King
JaJa, VI Oporoo, WIZ was recently arreSteu
by the British Consul for interfering with
traders, has been sent into exile.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL DYER on the eth
seized the Office of the President of the
Mormon Church at Salt Lake City. The
newspaper organ of the Church printed a
very bitter protest against this action.
In an interview at Paris, the day follow
ing the publication of the Presidents mes
sage, Hon. j. G. Blaine expressed himself
as opposed to the views therein enunciated,
preferring to see the abolition of tobacco
duties to any interference with the tariff.
MISCELLANEOUS.